regressus meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

regressus

noun

Etymology Borrowed from Latin regressus. Doublet of regress.

Law Roman The entitlement of a debtor to have a co-debtor pay their share.

In Solidarity the guarantor who pays the whole has regressus against his co-guarantors, that is to say, has a power of recovering from them contribution of their share of the debt: whereas the Correal debtor who pays has no regressus or right to contribution.1875, Edward Poste, Gai Institutiones:
Hence the pactum non petendo in rem of one correus debendi benefits the rest whenever on payment by one of them he woud have regressus against the others, for otherwise the pactum would be practically inoperative.1903, John Baron Moyle, Imperatoris Iustiniani Institiutionum, volume 4, page 490:

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According to Voet, if the husband (or his heirs) has discharged the whole of an ante-nuptial debt, he (or they) has (or have) regressus against the wife or her heirs in respect of one-half.1915, Robert Warden Lee, Introduction to Roman-Dutch Law, page 85:

Reversion to a benefice on default of one's successor.

On July 30th 1541, at the entreaty of the king of Scots, the pope provides Reid to the Church of Orkney, void by the death of Robert Maxwell, with retention of the monastery of Kinloss and his other benefices and pensions and right of regressus.1940, E. W. Wallis, The Church in Shetland During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, University of Edinburgh:
The regressus device meant that the benefice could he restored to the cleric who had resigned it should the recipient of the resignation die or resign or fail to pay the pension.1998, Eila Williamson, Scottish benefices and clergy during the Pontificate of Sixtus IV (1471-84): the evidence in the Registra Supplicationum, University of Glasgow:

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The right of regressus allowed a prelate to resign a benefice, possibly retaining a large pension on its revenues, with the assurance that that he could reclaim the benefice and its revenues either when the new incumbent died or if the latter in turn resigned.2019, Lucinda Byatt, A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal: